From left: Dakota Pattinson, Goodrich Student Council president, and Ashley VanSumeren, student council treasurer, chat with Marc Jacobson of ABC-12 Flint at the start of the School Spirit Challenge. Photos by Patrick McAbee.

The ABC-12 spirit squad kicked off the fourth annual competition at Goodrich High School, early in the morning on Sept. 9. Hundreds of dedicated students arrived early to show off the amount of food that they had gathered for the Eastern Michigan Food Bank.